Overview
Explores the disciplinary and interdisciplinary sites, productions and relations of ethnomusicology and queerness
Argues that ethnomusicology and queerness are founded upon destructive masculinity
Reimagines the fates of both ethnomusicology and queerness
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This open access book explores the disciplinary, disciplined, and recent interdisciplinary sites and productions of ethnomusicology and queerness, arguing that both academic realms are founded upon a destructive masculinity—indissolubly linked to coloniality and epistemic hegemony—and marked by a monologic, ethnocentric silencing of embodied, same-sex desire. Ethnomusicology’s fetishization of masculinizing fieldwork; queerness’s functioning as Anglophone master category; and both domains’ devaluation of sensuality and experience, concomitant with an adherence to provincial, Western conceptions of knowledge production, are revealed as precluding the possibilities for equitable, dialogic pluriversality. Enlisting the sonic as theoretical intervention, the disciplined/disciplining ethno and queer are reimagined in relation to negative emotions and intractable affect, ultimately vanquished, and replaced by explorations of sound, sex/uality, and experiential somaticity within a protean, postdisciplinary space of material/epistemic equity. This uncompromising, long-overdue critique will be of interest to researchers and students from numerous theoretical backgrounds, including music, sound, gender, queer, and postcolonial/decolonial studies.
Reviews
“'Confrontation’, ‘polemical’, ‘struggle’, ‘vanquishing’, ‘violence’: these are examples of the words contained in Stephen Amico’s tour de force Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity. This is not about fixing the field as it exists—this is about blowing stuff up. Amico confronts both ethnomusicology and queerness as part of our exclusionist colonialist music academy and argues for their demise, opening up ethnomusicology to new equitable possibilities. A must read for anyone committed to making academic music more welcoming for everyone.” —Philip Ewell, Professor of Music Theory, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Stephen Amico is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is the author of Roll Over, Tchaikovsky!: Russian Popular Music and Post-Soviet Homosexuality (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity
Book Subtitle: Silence=Death
Authors: Stephen Amico
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15313-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15312-9Published: 03 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15315-0Published: 03 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15313-6Published: 02 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 240
Topics: Music, Queer Studies, Postcolonial Philosophy, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime